People exposed to contaminated water at Lejeune get benefits

RALEIGH, N.C. --

President Barack Obama has signed a bill providing health benefits to Marines and family members exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune from 1957 to 1987 more...

Jerry Ensminger and Rachel Libert, "Semper Fi: Always Faithful"

WASHINGTON, DC
Sunday, April 1, 2012

This week on "Q&A," our guests are producer Rachel Libert and retired U.S. Marine Corps Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger. Libert is the producer and co-director of a documentary which features Ensminger.

The film chronicles Ensminger’s efforts on behalf of Marines and their families exposed to toxic drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. These efforts resulted in the introduction of the Janey Ensminger Act in the House and the Caring for Camp Lejeune Veterans Act in the Senate. The act is named after Mr. Ensminger's daughter who died of leukemia in 1985 at the age of nine.



The documentary details how he heard a local news story in 1997 about a proposed health study on adults and babies exposed to toxins in the water system on the base. After that, Ensminger began an investigative trail that took him to a government website which contained specific documents relating to the exposure. He and other former residents of the base filed over one thousand Freedom of Information Act requests to discover more. Ensminger was invited to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to discuss his findings.

During the interview with C-SPAN, Libert talks about her motivations for making the film, and introduces one of the participants, Mike Partain, who was diagnosed with male breast cancer at age 38.

Libert, a 2010 Sundance Institute Documentary Fellow, was the producer and director of documentary series last year on Discovery/Planet Green called “Boomtown.” Her film, “Undertaker” also won a Cable ACE award for best dramatic short film. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Ensminger, a North Carolina resident, retired as a Master Sergeant after serving twenty-four and one half years in the U.S. Marines. He was in motor transport maintenance and was a drill instructor at Camp Lejeune.

Gingrich wins Georgia primary; Virginia and Vermont too early to call

Updated 7 p.m. ET — NBC News has projected Newt Gingrich as the winner of the primary in Georgia as polls begin to close in some of the 11 Super Tuesday states. Mitt Romney leads in Vermont and Virginia's primaries, though both of those races are too early to call.
NBC News projected the former House speaker as the winner in Georgia, the state where he served as a congressman, and which Gingrich had said was a must-win contest for him this Tuesday in order to forge ahead with his candidacy.
The Peach State was just one of 11 states playing host to nominating contests on Tuesday, which were poised to put the battle for the Republican presidential nomination on a path toward conclusion — or, alternatively, on a route that threatens a more prolonged, bitter fight.more...
Gingrich wins Georgia primary; Virginia and Vermont too early to call

Obama To Make Trip To NH - Politics News Story - WMUR New Hampshire

Obama To Make Trip To NH - Politics News Story - WMUR New Hampshire

Romney’s Crooked Business Dealings at Bain

Nashua, NH - Romney’s Harvard background may not be a plus in this second run at the GOP nomination. A recent 30 minute video has surfaced with details on how his venture capital company, Bain, was a front to flip companies for a profit. This type of corporate takeover has been banned in one form or another over the years yet the Harvard educated alumni figure out the loopholes and legally steal the companies assets.

If you buy a company for 5 million dollars and the retirement fund has 25 million these corporate crooks will write themselves a check for the whole retirement fund amount and then put the workers out in the street. You don’t have to worry about getting robbed in the ally at knifepoint you need to worry about the four eyed snidely from Harvard stealing your entire life savings. That is what the republicans are after next is the social security that was promised to the baby boomer’s.They are going to return that social program to the states and wash their hands of it. If you vote republican this year and you are not in the over the 250,000 dollar income level and above then you deserve the inevitable consequences. We need 4 more years of Obama just to reverse the damage of the crooked Bush regime. Rick Perry, a Bush clone has been a joke candidate, Santorum has taken more special interest money then all the Senators combined, Jon Huntsman was more interested in showing debate watchers he spoke Chinese (big deal), Newt Gingrinch had his hand in the till for many years (way to much baggage), Ron Paul, If you want to see more gridlock just vote for him.

Just get out and Vote! (8 votes separated the Iowa caucus)

Romney edges past Santorum in by just 8 votes

Nashua, NH - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney eked out a razor-thin victory in Tuesday night’s Iowa Republican caucuses, holding off former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s late-in-the-game-surge to win. After a night that saw the two candidates claim the lead, the GOP announced that Romney beat Santorum by just 8 votes more...